Questioning Is An Art

Circular Questioning: An Introductory Guide*

This paper presents a simplified model that has been found to be useful for those learning questioning skills within the Milan systemic approach to family therapy as well as for those who simply wish to develop some skills in circular interviewing. The model begins with the premise that clients frequently describe a problem in terms that are either too broad or too narrow. The model has two cat...

Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda

I explore the potential utility of visual imagery to engage viewers in connecting ways with dynamic social-ecological contexts. Constructing photographs in response to the mass stranding of birds (shearwaters) on the east coast of Australia in 2013, I demonstrate the potential of wildlife and landscape photography to represent the impacts of environmental change at personal, relational, spatial...

Questioning Representations

The role of models in the design of computer systems to support interpersonal and cooperative work is examined. It is argued that the current generation of models over-emphasise determinism at the expense of interpretation in the work process. It is further argued that there are many cases in which designs pass between many different professional groups (office workers, managers, analysts, desi...

Entropic Questioning

Questioning Mashups

Mashups have been defined in earlier development stages of the web. Their main motivation is to build new services from existing resources. This principle is still productive. Assumptions on what mashups take in, which interfaces and services they provide and where they are networked need an overhaul. Focusing on a reuse of resources exploiting all their affordances while opening wider ranges f...